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2 totalESSAY UPON WIT
AN ESSAY UPON WIT.
Description
Date of origin 1716 Commentary by Addison from Freeholder, No. 45, 1716
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Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (67K characters)
Series
Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 01
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1946
Release date
2004-09-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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About the author
Sir Richard Blackmore
1654–1729
A doctor at the royal court and a tireless writer, this unusual figure moved between medicine, religion, politics, and poetry. He was widely read in his own day, even if later generations remembered him as much for satire as for his epic ambitions.
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